The New York Herald Newspaper, February 27, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. | JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFIC N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU B8T8. seen eeM@e 58 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome etreet.—So.om Suivote—Live Inpian, LUCY RUSHTON'’S NEW YORK THEATRE, Nos 723 and 730 Broadway.—King's Garpenza—Biack Doxino— PaxxoMenon it 4 Suock FRoox. * WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas Hlotel.—Atonmmxnt; on, Tus Cup Steacan. N FRANOISOO MINSTRELS, 53% Broadway, opposite jetropolitan Metel.—2rmior.an Sincixa, Dancixu, &c.— ‘#0 KiLuRD Coox Rosin? TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Sina- xa Daxora, Bumumsques, &c.—ADVANTURES OF 4 New Yous Dergorivs. GBORGE CURISTYS—Orp Scwoon oF Mixsrartsy, Raccaps, Mostar Gens, &0.. Fifth Avenue Opera House, = 2and4 West Twonty-fo street.—Bat Masque Des RIONS ‘_BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broat- way —Dan Burave's Swe Srowy Sranoe—Nedao Comioatt- mix, Buniasquas, &c.—| Maw. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Brmoriax Mine grngisr—Hatiaps, BuaLesques ano Pantomiuns. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. Open from 0A BM. ull 10 P.M HOPE CHAPEL, 720 Broadway.—Conaim's Iuivstaatep ‘Tour or ScoTLaND, “MISSOURI; ITS_ADVANTAGES.""—Lxcturm ay Rxv. Hi. 0, Suxcpom, corner of Forty-fourth street and Tenth avenue. ITH SUPPLEMENT. Now York, Tacsday, February %7, 1866. THE PRESIDENT’S POLICY. Arcport of an important and interesting interview with President Johnson on “aturday last is furnished by Governor Cox, of Ohio, and appears in our columns this morning. The President, in a clear and calm manner, reviewed at length his policy and proceedings regarding the restoration of the lately rebellious States to their former national relations, stating that ho considered he had inhorited and was carrying on the work commenced by Mr. Lincoln, and insisting that Congress had no right to complain of his action, as that body had not adopted any general plan of reconstruction, and he was therefore obliged to devise one for himself. A large mass meeting was held in Baltimore last night to oxpress approval by the people of that city of the President's veto of the Freedmon’s Bureau’ bill and bis goueral adm nistration of national affairs. Senators Doo: little aud Cowan were among the sp-akers, CONGRESS. Tho proceedings in both houses of Congress yedterday were very interesting. Ia the Sonate Mr. Grimes pre sont d a petition of e! izens of Iowa, asking for a consti tutional amendment recognizing the existence of Gos and tho Divinity of Christ, ‘There was considerable d s- cussion over a motion to take from the files aud refer to tho Judiciary Committee the papers in the caso of Messrs. Snow and Baxter, asking admission as Senators from Arkansas, Mr, Lane, of Kansas, after some re marks in (avor of allowing tho applicants to take their soats, declaring that Congress will make & great mistake if it shall not immediately adinit the loyal Southern reprosentatives. The ere- dontals of Messrs. Snow and Baxter were laid on the table by a yote of twenty-nine to seventeen, and a Motion to admit them to seats yas rejected. The con- sideration of the B cous: action Commitice’s resolution, already adopted by the House, providing that nono of the Southern representatives shall be admitted until Con. gress shail have declared their States entitled to repre- Seutation, was then resumed, and tho debate oa it oc- cupled a lurge portion of the session, Mr, Sherman being the principal speaker. He deprecated the resolution, as calculated to nerease rather than diminish the present agi tation regarding reconstruction, though he declared that he,wouli never vote for the T | eal of the test oath or the admiasion to Con tees of any person who had been prom- inert in the rebeilion, He alluded to President Johnson's apeech on Washington's Birth lay, and regretted that it hud been made, but contended that str ng provocation had been given for those remarks in it which were prin cipally objected to; paid aglowing tribuce to the Prosi dent's patriotic services, and urged that an aband. nt of him by the republican party would be the createst calamity which could at present bevail the nation. After tho conclusion of Mr. Sherman's remarks, and the de livery «f brief speeches by other Senators, the further consideration of the resolution was postponed tll to-day, The bill to author.ze a teleg.a,h betwen this city and tho West Indies was debated for some time, and was then recommitted to the Committee on Commerce, when the Senate adjourned. In the House of Repre enta‘ives bilis were introduced and referred to continue the Freedmon's Bureau, and to establish a navy yard and naval depot at Mound City, lilinois, A preamble and resolution were offered and red to the Reconstruction Committee call ng for an inquiry as to the allegations of disloyal contumacy on the part of a portion of the people of the South, an the proprety of levying on them the necessary taxes to defray the expenses of maintaining a ratonal military force in their States, In striciions were gi to the Military Committes to report a bill providing for equalization of boantios and on the expediency of giving to soldiers all pay or bounty \d on account of court martial judgments; to the Ways and Meaas Committee to report on the propriety relieving aucttoneers from internal revenue tax on of property made by virtue of judgments or de- crees of vouris, or by aa bority of guardiaos, executors or administrators, and to the Vensions Committee to inquire into th» expediency of making a dona- tion to a citizen of Hiinois who sent into the natonal army. The credentials of Alexander H. Jonos as representative from the Seventh district of North Carolina were presented and referred to tho Reconstruction f signed among others by Generals Grant and Meade, asking that the ‘Soldiers’ Memorial’ be allowed to past rough the mails at the same rate of postage as printd matter, was ref seven sons presented. Another proposed constitutional amend ment was report from the Reconstruction Commit too, providing for securing equal protection and civil rights to all the poopie, and gusrantosing to citizens of cach State the same privileges in every other State that they enjoy in their own, ‘This to a long debate, participated in by several members, Mr. Rogers, democrat, of New Jersey, making the principal speech, in which he defended President Johnson and charged the Reconstruction Committee with exercising despotic powers, Farther consideration of the proposed amendment was postponed till to-day. EUROPE. The steamships Arago, from Falmouth on the 15th {nat., and the Hermann, from Liverpool on the 14th, ar rived hore last night Tn the French Senate, on the 10th inst., Marshal Forey Siated that the rotum of the French troops from jco Could not take place as epeed ly as appeared to be desired in France, aod he advised freah reinforee- Ment, besentout M Jared that Forey had xave rise only expressed 4 private opinion, the views of the gov- ornment being those contained in the Emperor's speech, MEXICO. Tho letter of our Vera Cruz correspondent, published in our Supplement sheet of this moming, ecntaing some valuable information regarding Mexico of a charac ter to which little attention has heretoiore been given. Acomprebensive view of the entire military situation fo that country is presented, sbowing the relative pos. tions of the opposing republican and imperial forces, and distinctly marking out their respective lines, By th's exhibit the military strength of the former is placed in a mach more favorable Light tan it has geveraily been regarded. From the Pacific States, over versal of whieh they have nearly undisputed control, they maintain an almost unbroken line, well supplied with troops, eastward completely across the territory of the republic to the Rio ¢ 1 | while numerous detached parties of republican soldiers Snnoy tho imperialists and keep up the warfare fur ther in the interior, and even in the Southern and Gulf Gatee in the vicinity of Vora Grua and other imperial NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1866.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. strongholds. Our correspondent also furnishes an in- vereating account of a military orvanization which 1s now boing perfected in Mexico by late American rebel officers for a grand plundering raid clear across the country to ond in Central America, where the proceeds are to be divided and the expeditionary army Is to be dispersed. THE CITY. General Grant left the metropolis for Washington in last night's midnight train, During yesterday forenoon and afternoon he made an inspection of some fast trot- ting stock, and visited some of the manufacturing and mercantile establishments of the c'ty. During this last visit to New York General Grant has been presénted by several of our leading wealthy citizens with a purse of one hundred thousand dollars, Last evening a brilliant re- ception was given to the General, under the auspices of the Twenty-third National Guard regiment, at the Brook- lyn Acadomy of Music. The building was crowded with the beauty and fashion of the City of Churches, and the distinguished guest received au ovation which must have been very gratifying tohim. On leaving the Academy he was driven to the Brooklyn Club House, where a sQmptuous repast was prepared. At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen yesterday resolutions were adopted authorizing measures for placing the streets in a cleanly condition, notwithstand- ing the alleged neglect of the contractors, and to appoint a special committee of three to inquire into the executive business of the City Inspector’s Department, as trans- acted after the passage of the Health bill and accompany- ing ordinance. The office of City Railroad Inspector was created, with # yearly salary of twenty-five hundred dol- Jars. The quesiion of according an increase of salary to the sweepers of the city markets was productive of much discussion, during which Aldermen O'Brien and Loew stated that they had been threatened with personal vio- lence if they did not vote for the adoption of the increase, ‘The subject was finally laid over for future action. The veto of the Mayor to the publication of the Corporation Manual was taken up, and tho resolution directing said publication was adopted over the veto by a vote of fifteen toone, The Board adjourned to Monday next. ‘The Board of Councitmen met yesterday and took up the resolutions adopted by the Aldermen endorsing Presi- dent Johnson’s veto of the Froedmen’s Bureau bill, which occasioned an oxciting debate, A substitute was offered dissagreeing with the policy of the President, which was supplanted by the adoption of a resolution appointing a special committee of three to draft resolutions endors- ing the veto, An ordinance requiring the street railroad cars to carry lights on the front platforms and to drive slow when approaching the junction of other lines was adopted. Judge Barnard yesterday decided in a case that was brought before him that the Courts had no authority to discharge minors from tho army, and that application should be made to the Secretary of War. An action has been commenced by Mr. Patrick O’Brien, a civil surveyor, against Mr. James T. Lloyd, a map manufacturer, to recover over three thousand dol- lars for services alleged to have been rendered. An at- tachment was procured against Mr. Lloyd’s property, and a motion to vacate was yesterday made in the Su- preme Court, Chambers, before Judge Ingraham. The cas? was adjourned over until Wednesday, after hearing argument of counsel. ‘An interesting investigation was commenced yesterday in the Tombs Police Court of the circumstances connect- ed with the robbery in Philadelphia, in July, 1863, of three thousand dollars worth of government bonds, and their subsequent sale in this city. It was alleged that they were traced to the house of L. 8. Lawrence & Co., brokers, of 164 Nassau street, and Spencer Pettis is charged with being the man who sold them to the person from whom they procured them, Considerable testi- mony, fully reported in our Supplement of this morning, was taken, after which the continuation of the examina- tion was adjourned to Monday next, Messrs. Lawrence and Pettis being in the meantime required to give five thousand dollars bail each. The contested alleged will of Mr. Charles Breusing, who died in this city in 1863, and which was refused aimission to probate by the Surrogate, is now on trial before Judge Foster, in the Supreme Court, part 3. This will left the property of deceased, amounting to some fif'y thousand to his alleged misstress, Regina Kaullinan, and is now oppused by the next or Kin The case is sent before a jury by the General Term on questions of fact, xs recommended by the Surrogate. Surrogate Tucker yesterday admitted to probate the wili of Sarah Ann Green, deceased, the evidence being satisfactory, Argument was heard in the case of the estate of Irwin Ackers, deceased. The accounts of the late W. D. Parsons, a8 collector of the estate of Andrew R. Lawrence, deceased, were settled, and the property was transferred to the executor of Mr. Lawrence's will. James Rogers, arrested on a charge of passing © terfeit currency, was yesterday before United States Commissioner Betts, who fixed the examination into the case for to-day. The annual meeting of the Children’s Aid Sogacty was held yesterday afternoon at the Metropolitan National Bank, when the reports of (he secretary and treasurer were read. The reports show the amount of work per- formed by the society during the past year in caring for the large number of boys and girls that embrace the op- portunities offered by the society for bettering thelr con- a ‘The treasurer's report shows a balance on hand of two thousand two hundred and six dollars and eight ceuts, aud asks for aid from our citizens to enable the society “to remove five thousand children to new homes in the West.’ ‘The trustees, whose term of office oxpired at this meeting, were unanimously re-elected, A collection of statements taken from the books of the Assessor of Internal Revenue for the Fifth district of this city, which appears in this morning’s Henan, will prove of interest as well to the general as the business reader, giving, as it does, the returns in the district named during six months, the amounts of taxes and the sums paid by different classes of business and by various well known establishments, and a list of persons and firms baving incomes of one hundred thousand dollars and upwards, Karly yesterday morning, while @ man named John Irw n, keeping a porter house at No. 58 Main street, Brooklyn, was engaged, as alleged, in beating his wife, a bystander named Joseph Ferguson interfered, and in- flicted such severe punishment on Irwin that his recovery is considered doubtful. Ferguson was arrested and com- mitted, From the report of Inspector F. I. A. Boole the infor- mation is obtained that the number of doaths in tho elty during last week was 495. Of the deceased 124 were men, 112 women, 154 boys and 105 girls. There was an increase of 78 over the mortality of the week preceding, and a decrease of 69 as compared with the corresponding weok of last year; 204 of the deaths were of children under five years of age. The stock market waa higher yesterday, and closed steady, Governments were dall, Gold closed at 196%. ‘The markots yesterday were almost universally dull and heavy, though prices showed but few changes either in foreign or domestic merchandise. Petroleum continued dull and nominal, Cotton was quict. Groce. ries were steady. On ‘Change flout was steady for good, but Jower for common qualities, Wheat was dull and nominal, Corn v.0 firmer, with a more active demand. Oats were stendy firmer. Beef was steady, Lard was a littl lower, Whiskey was rather firmer, MISCELLANEOUS. Our State Legislature, after its recess from the 17th inst, will reassemble to-day, In our Albany despatch Will be found considerable matter of Interest regarding State, legislative and our city affairs. Governor Fenton returmed to the State rapital last night, after an absence of several days in New York and Washington, It is re- ported that he is enlisted in the radical ranks for war on President Johnson. While in this city the Governor was strongly importunet by candidates for the medical positions in our new Metropolitan Health Commission ; but the lucky applicants have not yet been designated. Since the termination of our war the great struggle with England for the commerce of the world, which the exigencies of the rebellion temporarily interrupted, has been renewed with increased vigor. Already English writers begin to tremble for the result, We publish in our Supplement to-day a remarkable lecture recently de- livered by Caplain Pim, of the British navy, on the sub: ject of the transit routes between North and South America, Captain Pim points out that the Panama route being monopoly tm the hands of Americans exclusively, in the event of war British | commerce on the Pacifle could be utterly annittiated before intelligence of the outbreak of hostilities could be conveyed to that distant latitade from England He dwelis upon the rapidly increasing development of | United Stater commerce, and urges that the maintenance | Of British maritithe supremacy depends apon the estab: lishment of some rival route to that existing via Panama Ho has, therefore, paid four visite of exploration to Nicaragua, through whieh Territory he proposes to carry his new route, and has obtained « concession from the Nicaraguan Congress fur tho construction of # railroad Pork wa: from Gorgon Bay, Monkey Point, to Roalejo, on the Pacific coast, Tho cost of this work he estimates at only 4wo and a half millions sterling, Inoluded im the concession isa grant of a million and a half acres of land in the rich mining districts of Nicaragua, Captain Pim asserts that there ia fair probability of the project being carried into effect. The Emperor Napoleon, to whom he sub- mitted the project, was desirous himself of undertaking it, but Captain Pim preferred to make the route exclu. sively a British one. ‘The Canadian papors of yesterday contained a proc'a- mation informing American fishermen that with the ex- piration of the Reciprocity treaty, on the 17th of next month, their privilege of using the in-shore fisheries of Canada will terminate, In another letter from our St, Paul correspondent which appears in this morning's Hamat Supplement he adds the experience of a residence of several additional months to the testimony which be has heretofore borne in our columns in favor of Minnesota as the best known Tesort for consumptives. He has seen the beneficial effects of its climate in hundreds of provioualy almost hopeless cases, and considers tho State, even in winter, far preferablo to Cuba, Florida and other Southern regions asa place of abode for persons with pulmonary affections. A meeting of citizens of Newark last night gavo a spir- ited endorsement to the measure now before tho New Jersey State Legislature for the incorporation of a com- pany to build a new railroad botwoon that city and Now York. ‘The extensive grocery house of Newcomb, Buchanan & Co., at Louisville, Ky., was totally destroyed by firo on the morning of the 22d inst. Two hundred: thousand dollars worth of property was burned, on which there was an insurance of one bundred and seventy-five thou- ‘sand dollars, one hundred and five thousand dollars be- ing in Now York city offices, President Johnson a the Radicals— The Issue Before the Country. The late unanswerable veto message of President Johnson s0 clearly defines his fixed policy of Southern restoration, and his late emphatic speech against Thaddeus Stevens and that school of radicals draws so distinctly the line of division between them and the administration, that the rank and file of the republican party must take one side or the other. The double dealing game which has thus far been so successfully played before the people by the republican leaders, of noidy professions of adhesion to President Johnson, while employing all their strength to coerce him into submission, or “to do without bim,” by the independent power of a two-thirds majority in each honse of Congress, is a game which in the first trial in the Senate has failed, and failed so signally that there is the end of it. But the question still remains to be setiled whether the Southern restoration policy of Andrew Johnson or that of Thaddeus Stevens shall prevail. From present appearances there is nothing to indicate a coming compromise. The ma- jority of each branch of Congress, though stunned and staggered by the veto and the supplemental speech from the White House, still maintain a compact and belligerent tront— still hold fast to the fanatic Stevens and his committee of reconstruction—and have defi- antly declared for the indefinite exclusion of the excluded Southern States, in view of the necessity of their reconstruction upon the basis of negro suffrage or the exclusion of the black race from the basis of federal representation. In plainer terms, the issue joined between tho President and Congress is ly this:—The President contends that loyal representatives from the Southern States reconstracted on his conditions are now entitled to admission into Congress, The radical majority of each house Say no, and are resolved if possible to keep those States out of Congress and our national poli- tics until after the next Presidential election. This is the issue—whether the Southern States, complying with the satisfactory con- ditions laid down by President Jolnson, shall be restored to Congress, law and or. indas- try and (rade as fast as possible, or shall be kept back, under a mixed commission of mili- tary and civil laws and officers, and under the pressure of distrast, stagnftion, bankruptey and demoralization, till after the next Presidential election of 1868, The President protests against the policy of Congress; Congress repudiates the the policy of the President, and consequently there must be an appeal to the people. It is understood that, pursuant to a late Congres- sional caucus of the republicans, they have ap- pointed a campaign committee in view of this year’s Northern State elections, and especially those of next autumn, from New York to Cali- fornia, The contest before the people, there- fore, will soon be formally opened. It will be the business of this Congressional committee to furnish the republicans through- out the country with electioneering documents in support of the policy of Stevens and his re- construction directory, as the new republican platform. It ought to be the business of the re- publican endorsers of the President's policy to fight this electioneering system with the same weapons, for here is the all-important point in the case. President Johnson bas not gone and does not intend to go over to the skeleton re- mains of the Chicago democracy. His contest with Thaddeus Stevens he intends to fight out inside the republican lines, He adheres io the Union party and the principles of the Balti- more Convention of 1864. He adheres to the Union programme of his illustrious predeces- sor, Abraham Lincoln, and, holding this posi- tion, he is prepared to stand the test of an ap- peal from Congress to the people. That this is the course which President Johnson will pursue we are well assured. If the republican party, therefore, as now organized, shall be broken to pieces next fall, from a foolish ad- hesion to Thaddeus Stevens, it is not the Chica- go democracy, but the Union party of the ad- ministration that will take its place in the next Congress, The integrity of the party in power depends upon its adhesion to the administration, and this adhesion depends upon the President's Southern policy, with which the country is sat- isfied. As for the next sidential election, whether in the interim the outside Southern States shall or shall not be restored to Con- gress and to a voice in that election, General Grant, the idol of the army, will be the choice of the people. The advantages and the proba- bilities of this present contest between Andrew Jonson and Thaddeus Stevens are all in favor of the administration in an appeal to the people. Doxt Browx.—The soi-disant aristocracy of this city have not been able to capture Gene- ral Grant. He was carried off to Grace church on Sunday, and performed his devotions like a good Christian. But after service the fush- jonables conspired to give him a musical treat, and sexton Brown was deputed to invite the General to hear the organ play. , “No,” replied Grant; “I don’t know one tune from another, and would rather hear a bass drum than an organ any day.” Grant is a soldier all the way through. Martial music and the music of the Union are all that he cares to understand. The Freedmen’s Bur. ‘Trade, Our correspondence from Washington re- veals an extraordinary state of things with regard to tho oporations of the Freedmen’s Bureau and its agents, Woe have heard it inti- mated for some time past that the officers or agents of this pet establishment of the radicals were guilty of grave offences, Now it appears they have been entering extensively into a new the Slave kind of slave trade. It is known they have | almost unlimited power over the negroes, and that the white people of the South are so much in their power that they can do whatever they please. No Roman pro-consul ever exercised more arbitrary power than they can over the widespread and scattered settlements of the South. Most of them are men of small capacity and limited views of things, and not a few of them are corrupt. A large number of them are from New England, where the original slave importers and dealers came from, and nearly all ate the friends and belong to the school of the radical republicans in Congress. None know how to whip the devil round the stump so well as these wide-mouthed Massachusett, negro worshippers. While they are preaching philanthropy they would flay a negro and sell his skin for the almighty dollar. It is not at all surprising, therefore, that wo now hear from good authority that a species of slave trade has been revived by these people. Tho agents of the bureau in the bor- der States, where negroes are very plentiful and not wanted, send the darkies, at the expense of government, to their colleagues in the cotton States, who dispose of them to the best advantage. We do not mean, nor is it so stated, that they sell the negroes right out and take a bill of sale for them, as the Southerners used to do; no, that is not the way the friends of Sumner and Stevens do business, But they make bargains with those who want to employ the negroes, and they have many friends trom the North and others with whom they are secret partners to whose employment they assign these people. Of course it is said the negroes go voluntarily and make agreements them- selves with their new employers, but this every sensible man knows is all bosh. The negroes are ignorant, and are as much under the power of the agents of the Freedmen’s Bureau as they were under their former masters. The oppor- tunity for speculation and making money is a very fine one, and we have no doubt, as our correspondent says, these shrewd and irre-” sponsible men have availed themselves of it pretty extensively. The President’s veto of tho infamous bill to enlarge the powers of the Freedmen’s Bureau came quite timely. The whole concern ought to be abolished at the earliest day practicable. Mr. Johnson had the sagacity to perceive the unconstitutionality, corruption, oppression and enormous expense of this monstrous political machine of the radicals. We ehall have, no doubt, fresh developments from time to time showing the evils of the system and the wis- dom of tte veto. The expenses of the govern- ment have increased enormously lately, and in ® great degree from the operations of the u. It would be an interesting piece of lien: if we could get at the fact, to know how much this new kind of slave trade has cost the government in the way of trans- portation of the negroes from certain localities to others, It would be useful to know, too, how much the white people of the South have to pay the bureau agents to save themselves from being worried to death or ruined, or for necessary protection. An honest committee of inquiry would make some frightful develop- ments, but that cannot be obtained from the present Congress. The time may come, how- ever, when we shall know more about it. In the meantime we must depend upon our honest and patriotic President to do all he can, as far as he may have the power and be permitted to see the truth, to arrest the corrupt and arbi- trary proceedings of the officers and agents of the Freedmen’s Burean, QvestionanLe Nevtrarrry.—The Spanish or- gan, Ia Cronica, announces that instructions have heen issued by the United States govern- ment for the refitting of ¢he Spanish war ves- sels, now in this port, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, placing at the disposal of their com- manders all the facilities which the govern- ment works there can afford, free of all ex- pense. These vessels are ostensibly in the port of NewYork for the purpose of watching ves- sels suspected of being fitted out for the Chilean government, with which Spain is now at war. Orders have also been sent from Madrid to the Captain General of Cuba to purchase iron-clad war vessels in this city for the Spanish service on the Pacific coast. It seems very questionable whether our gov- ernment is maintaining a strictly neutral posi- tion between Spain and Chile, in thus affording aid and comfort to the Spanish navy, while it has laid an embargo upon a steamer supposed to be intended for the service of Chile, and has arrested an agent of that government for sus- pected complicity in the purchase of vessels intended for that purpose. Spain and Chile, we take it, stand upon the same ground as belligerents, as far as our gov- ernment can regard them. Our sympathics might be supposed to lie in the direction of the republic of Chile rather than the Spanish mon- archy, and we have no doubt that the people of this country feel just this way about tue existing conflict. The Spanish paper assumes that this courtesy is extended to the Spanish vessels in return for the action of the authori- ties at Havana in restoring the rebel privateer Stonewall without exacting the usual expenses incidental in retaining her in « Spanish port, and partly, in consequence of the friendly re- ception which Mr. Seward met with on his recent visit to Cuba. If Spain were not a bel- ligerent Power these sentiments would be quite proper; but it occurs to us that to afford these facilities to the war vessels of one belli- gerent and deny them to the other is hardly in accordance with the. principles of neutrality which we have been heretofore preaching and practising, and insisting upon other nations carrying out in our own regard. News rnow Homs.—The radicals in Washing- ton are hearing from home by every mail, and all they hear deepens their conviction that they have made ® great mistake. The people clected their representatives on platforms that pledged them to support the President and his policy, and not to follow the crazy lead of Thad Stevens. The people do not forget, and what the radicals now hear is the commencement of 4 fire in the rear that will grow fiercer every day till they fulfil the pledges on which they were electad Tue Raproat Prepicament.—The radicals are in a terrible mess just now. Their caucus in Washington on the 23d instant was an occa- sion on which “every man fell to accusing his neighbor.” It was by all evidently taken for granted that the fortunes of ‘he faction are desperate; that they had endeavored to push their purposes too far, and so had met with a feartul accident, and their principal difficulty was to determine who was to blame. All snarled at the Reconstruction Committee as one prime cause of trouble, and at Stevens as another. “But for him they would not have been in such a predicament.” Not being able to agree very well as to who they should blame, these crazy mariners could agree quite aa litle as to how and where they should shorten sail for an attempt to save the radical ship. Whereabouts could they abate a little of their protensions and still save appearances, and seem to the people to be as great and as proud and pompous as ever? It was a question between their pride and their sense of danger. They could not acknowledge to the country that Mr. Jobnson was right by yielding any point that they had previously insisted on; they could not imperil all their radical plans when the relinquishmensof one or two points might save the rest. Wilson, of Massachusetts, proposed to shorten sail by the admission of the Ten- nessee members, but it was thought that would be too obvious; and so they muddled on and did nothing. The radicals have made the dis- covery that they cannot be the President's friends and his enemies at the same time; that they cannot hold up tothe people the sem- blance of assisting the President in the recon- struction of the country while they are oppos- ing bitterly every essential point of his policy. He is not a man to be soothed by soft phrases and palavered out of earnest political convic- tions; and his mere refusal to abet their plans has smashed the radical machine. Th's they see and feel; they know also that he stands on broad constitutional grounds, and that their only choice is to go with him or otherwise— follow Stevens. This is indeed a humiliating predicament for the haughty faction that lately threatened so fiercely. Wisk on THE Anxious Seat—The letter of Wise, of Virginia, to F. Wood, of this cily, which we published yesterday, isa very curious document. Wise, who was always affi'c ed with the epistolary mania, is now very anxious for information, and he asks a lot of questions which must have bothered Wood greatly, and which, of course, he was utterly unable to answer. The correspondence reminds us of a scene in hospital between a rebel soldier and a Confoderate chaplain. “Can you inform me what is the State of your soul?” asked the chap- lain. “O, go away with you conundrums,” groaned the soldier; “I’m too sick to puzzle over them.” In the same spirit F. Wood, completely used up by the triumph of the Union, must have received such queries a3, “Can you inform me why the writ of habeas corpus has not been restored?” or, “What is the state of national affairs, present and prospect- ive?” Wise can still talk about his “patriot heart,” butqWood gives up these conundraims. He feels too sick to puzzle over them. . Newspaper ATTACKS ON THK PRESIDENT.— While the general tone of the metropolitin press on the President’s late Washington speech was highly laudatory and in every way respect- ful, two journals—the Tribune and the Post— have acen fit to assail the President in unseemly and offensive terms, The remarks of the Tribune do not create much surprise, for they are in keeping with its general sentiments when deal- ing with the policy and conduct of Mr. John- son. However, we cannot pass over without the strongest condemnation the ontrage upon good taste which suggested the allusion that members of Congress were elected to legislate, and not fortuitously placed in their position by the act of an assaszin. The comments of the Post are all the more objectionable, coming from a source which pre- tends to represent feelings of friendship to the President and support his policy. Withont as- suming the violence and shockingly bad taste of the Tridune’s attack, the commentaries of the Post are more out of place, and thns really more offensive. However, it is gratifying to know that the ill judged assaults of neither of these journals are sustained by the public, but are almost universally regarded as a wanton and undignified abuse of the chief magistrate of the country. They will do no burt whatever to Mr. Johnson, but will reflect in a very diseredit- able light upon the journals from which they emanated. City Intelligence. Sr. Barwanas’ Crry Messiow Hovas.—The Rev. Dr. Mor- gan, rector of St. Thomas’ church, preached a sermon ia Dehalf of this institution of mercy last Sabbath evening in Zion church, Madison avenue, corner of East Thirty. h street. The church was crowded on the occasion, speaker presented to a very attentive congregation the subject of Jeans Christ, the minister to the poor, the fallen, the broken-hearted, spending bis early years in such dise pline of hardship and humiliation as should es. pecially fit him to sympathize with all who needed sym- pathy, tempted in all points and by the aame tempter as We are, and setting us an example to follow in his foot. stopa, The preacher anid such acharity as the one for which he was pleading afforded ample rtumity for all who appreciated the misery and deg) von which surrounds them to manifest the Savi apirit in the Savior's way, He also spoke of the encouraging work already done by the House as a temporary home for tho very poor and onteast women and children who throng the streets of York. In commending it to the sup. porting eare of bis hearers, he stated that towards the purchase of the two houses Nos. 204 and 306 Mulb rry street $18,000 had already been subseribed, and that $9,000 more was nocded to complete the purchase. Tt April” ‘he thanctal agent of the City Mision Sectety Is nt of i ‘ton is the Rev. Merritt H. Wellman, 314 East Thirtieth rset The choral part of the service was finely rendered by —- Trinity chureh, who kindly gave their ser- ¥ Mosic any Myarery 4 ta Mruraine.—The members of company H, Seventy-firat regiment N. G8. N. Y., will give am entertainment to their friends this evening, at the armory of the regiment, Centre Market. The invitations they have issued announce “An evening of Music and M; and from the well Sener tae well known abili mit be everson will be of the hi ever, i as yet involv im mystery. A Maw Waixs Ovenpoann asp is Drowwen.—Yos- terday morning, about four o'clock, a stranger, appa. rently intoxicated, was seen walking down ‘the pier foot of Jay street, North river, and directly he staggered to the side of the pier, and, falling overboard, was drowned. His remains wore subsequently recoveréd and Coroner Collin held an inquest over them. verdict of death by drownin twenty-two years yh and ntlya German. He was five feot eight inches in height, with light hair, bat no whiskers, had ona brown mixed sack brown overcoat, brown cloth pants, brown satin vest and black felt hat, Bianrn Avexie Raxoan.—The rograding of that por- tion of the avenue extending from Fifty-ninth street to ‘One Hundreth street will be soon commenced. Prelimt- nary to this operation labbrers are now employed in re- moving the aqueduct that crosses the avenue between Eiehty-ffth and Nineticth streets and laying down six feet pipes to supply its place, In order that this work may fe speedily carried out the cars travel at present on one track only between Righty-ffth and Ninetieth streets, The total le of the Eighth avenre |ine is something over eight miles, The jury rendered a Deo was about STATE CAPITAL, THE VETO CRISIS AT ALBANY. Position of Senators Morgan and Harris, Cov- ernor Fenton and the Legislature on Andy Johnson. THE METROPOLITAN SANITARY SITUATION Prospects of More Reform Measures for New York City. Abrogation of the Board of Supervisors. &o. &o. &e, Our Albany Correspondence. Aunany, Feb. 26, 1868, The lezisiative bodies moet here to-morrow at slorem o'clock. The mombors are arriving by every train. Gor- ernor Fenton arrives hore to-night. He tias been absent since lust Monday at Washington, returning to New Yurk on Saturday, While in Now York he was run down with doctors, applying for positions in the now Health De- partment. A visitor at his hotel counted one hundrod cards with “M. D."’ appended to their names on bie tablo. It is undorstood that Willard Parker and Dr. Me. Millan are tho leading candidates for the New Yorx pasi- tions, The physician for Brooklyn is not vory sirongly indicated as yet. Three offices with twenty-five hindred dollars salary, and some fifeen for deputies, at fifteen hundred doliars salary each, all open for distribution, create a commotion which will agl- tate the wholo medical faculty of the State. The Health bill is not yet signed, howover. It had not been fully engrosscd when the Governor loft for Wash- ington, and although it was supposed Govornor Alvord had signed it, as ho did other less important bills, tt seems he refused to act on this bill, and accordingly it will be before the Governor to-morrow for his signature, ‘THE LEGISLATURE ON ANDY JOMUNSON—POsiT:ON OF FENTON. Governor Fenton ts reported to have returned strong} enlisted for the radical cabal in Congress aga nst Andy Johnson. Ho did not attend that meetiag at the White House, but he saw the President, I hear, on Friday. His mission had special reference to the collectorsbip. Iam told by parties whe have conversed with Fenton that hie visit did aot meot with mrch syccess, Some of hs radical friends here, whoare net prepared to go with him openly agaipst Jonson, are anxious to get him committed to some programme of dolay. Great interest is manifested in the “crisis,” and caucuves ars on foot to adopt some coxrse of action. The course of Senator Morgan in Con- gress has vastly strengthened him in the State, and, compared to the pusiilanimous stand of Harris and Fon- ton, advances him far above all the other agpirants for the position of practical succession to Seward in the Union party. NEW YORK CITY LEGISLATION, The vigorous contest over the Health bill has been as- sumed to indicate the impossibility ay taped Qny spec'al measures with rezard to New York city here this year, This assumption ts based upon adelnsion. The heat an¢ vigor presented in this bill are oxactly the elomont wh: the Tobby and the New York officials find it impossible to stem hy their usunt appiiances They were paral and looked on hopolesaly during the e of the Mealtl bill, while a little apathy would tiave given them meang of stepping in, as they had done every yout seven years post, aud killing the measuro, It is now as- sumed that there will b» nothing moro; that the City Inspector's department 16 wiped out, and there is tho end, It does not x0 seem to me. ere is a contest for the control jn New York city inaugurated between the two factions of tho Union party, and this strife is now directed to the offices there. jee may not be of much value to the party at large at the polls, Dut their bearing on the delegations to bo sont to the Stato conventions ix az of paramount impor- tance. A large number o” misceliancous measures have been held back unt | the Health bill should be out ot the way, and these are now ready to be rushed forward, ‘There is very little prospect of the Board of Gontrol, however. It lies quietly in the control of the Committee on Cities, and there # not within my koowldge any outside influence capable of coutrolting Its passage here. None has as yet been exerted to that end. A COMMISSIONE OF PUITIC RECORDS, Among the now measures to be ht forward one of the most interest ng is the bill to abolish the office of Register and establish one or more commissioners of public records. This proposition was mooted herg some time since, and has been carefully shaped so as to comprise ‘the duties of the present iotae and those which the tommlesioners of record shoul discharge, bad not Slippery Dick & Co. divert @ some six hundred thousand dollars appropriated for this object to such extraordinary use, Tho work of indexing the pubiic records and having them printed was authorized some years since; but, as the control of the matter was practically vested in certain of the county oificers, the affair tirned out an enormons swindle. Of the’ Register’s records of grantors and grantees ouly one clasé was (ndexed, and the rest remain without completion. As the office of Rogister yields @ revenue of somo sixty thousand dollars a year, it ts pro- pored to divert this splendid income to the completion of the printed work in the indexes unfinished. Thin would be @ most excellent and economical plan, and its adoption would cover any aspect of party interest in the proposed bili with an absolute shield of public expe- diency. By the appointment of a Commissioner of Records ani a publication of the balamce of the valuable indexes to the Registers office any Inwyer could glance at the genoral descent of a city tite 1) any part of the State without sending to New York. At present the income of the Register's office is divided between the two Wools, their revenues being said to be twenty thou- sand dollars a year each, leaving a like sum for the share of the incumbent of the office who holds it for them. TUS CORPORATION ADVERTISING. Tho flagrant swindle, the Corporation adver be thoroughly taken in hand this sorsion, News exists altogether on this fravd ts a1 wration which will swamp not only the " o department by whch Ben Wood's sheet has been subsidized at fifty to one hundred thousand dollars a year of the public thoney through all the tme of the national peril. This motter has rested solely im the hands of a single pablic officer, whose term expires this year, An attempt has been projected to cook up ® Job on the legal advertiains to bel the expiring cars caas of the News also, but it is not so easy a thing to do here as it is in the Common Counell or in those classic de- partments. S/RTAL CAMPAIGN AGAINET THe SUPRRTISORS, The fight about the vacancy tn the Board of Super. visors, occasioned by the death of Mr. Purdy, will barst up that Board, The President, “Hank Smith,'' {s constantly here taking care of things, and the Boord of Superviacrs bas Dot met in a long period. The last man on che slate for the vacancy was Looles On the passage of the Health bill he was at once jamped forward for this place, and would have been ctosen but for a very extraordinary ex- Plosion. One of the Justices of the Supreme Court of this tate, whose reputauon and prestige have growa equally ientitied with the bench aud the party to which he belongs, put a veto on this slate, He gave it ont distinctly to the persone concerned that such an appointment would at once bring the legislative fi the Grand Jury of them to an’ ine exclusion of Sa- = hat he is strong! intrenched in the occult things of the great ‘non. vert, fan" faculty of the metropolis. John M. Hayward, of the Eighteenth ward, is the other candidate, and i urged by the Street Department in case Senator shoald conclude not to take the position. The sbroqae tion of the Board of Supervivors ts held back to acted on and urged when the county tax levy comes It is expected that all “ee of the radi-ats will concentrated on this effort. The vacancy in the position aren used as a very strong lever to upset Leey Reantoy’s Tumates —A new bill was produced at Mids Rushton's theatre last evening, consisting of two farovs and the sucessful comedy The Black Domina Miss Lucy Rashton appeared in the latter with ber usual snccess, singing “The Spirite of Good” and “Guard My Bteps.”” She was supported by Mr. ©. W. Clarke and the stock. The musical comedictta The King’s (ar- Gener opened the Introducing aa a) eae sang “Love is & Nav re ™ archuess and effect. 4 by mA | the hy Totams ock , bringing out Mise Lucia Deane, Mra, Mark Smith and Meesrs. I ps Tight and acceptable réls, Tisgardag il tat Reavy and stedous, and, producing Diseardi . " nt and sparkling, Mine Rushton ‘ius ronda her litle ttre ®@ necessity 10 the fua-loving public. ————————— ° Sew York Soldiers’ Heme. aay . 26, 1808. The Ira Harri United States I has, been 6 rerted: jentitate disabled soldiers Terie Into s home ford pare been received. The insite hundred. Thoy are |. Feb. 26, 1968. dians have received news that two more orate te entabliabed in theit country, They are rated and will make peace a* #00n a2 Commminsjqners are semi ber